Mission

The mission of the CIAR is to advance industry and community interests by building and strengthening connections between CUE and external partners turning knowledge and ideas into solutions.

The CIAR provides a woven approach for connecting multi-departmental research activities to external stakeholders including project collaboration, research commercialization, and business incubation and accelerator services.

The CIAR will be moving to the new Centre for Science, Research, and Innovation when it opens. Take a look!

CIAR 8 Pillars of Activity

Industry and community relations: Enables meaningful connections between CUE and external partners.

Research Commercialization: Mobilizes CUE research results into the market.

Intellectual Property Protection: Facilitates the protection of viable intellectual property created by CUE’s research results.

Business Incubator: Transitions entrepreneurial ideas into reality through business development support, infrastructure, and mentorship.

Global Business Accelerator: Provides youth based local start-up businesses the resources to compete globally, and opportunities to collaborate with international businesses.

Customized Training: Responds to industry and community needs by creating adaptable and innovative industry and corporate training.

Community Outreach: Finds opportunities in the community to develop research collaborations.

The CIAR also assists in the “business process requirements” of research allowing faculty to focus on the research itself, thereby creating a team approach in developing and commercializing research opportunities.